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offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? Sat Sep 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Can the radical Left ? increasingly wedded to violence to achieve its unpopular ideals ? actually be trusted with free speech, or will it just keep using it to call for and celebrate our deaths, asks Steven Tucker.
The post Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Sep 27, 2025 00:54 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link In Defence of Cancelling the Left Fri Sep 26, 2025 17:00 | Dr James Allan
Should the Right take the moral high ground and refrain from cancel culture? Or should it give the Left a taste of its own medicine ? and try to teach it a lesson? It has to be the latter, argues Professor James Allan.
The post In Defence of Cancelling the Left appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting ?F*** Hamas, F*** Islam? on Soc... Fri Sep 26, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Police officers have come under fire after they arrested an autistic man late last night over an X post which read: "F***?Hamas, F***?Palestine, F*** Islam. Want to protest? F*** off to a Muslim country and protest."
The post Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting “F*** Hamas, F*** Islam” on Social Media appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain Fri Sep 26, 2025 13:40 | Belinda Brown
It's time to admit that Christians are being persecuted in two-tier Britain, says Belinda Brown. The flimsiest claims of 'offence' from normal expressions of Christian faith are getting people sacked and arrested.
The post It’s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Mary Harney: Why do you appoint Corporate Cronies to State Boards?

category national | miscellaneous | press release author Monday December 20, 2010 20:06author by Cllr Gino Kenny - PBPA Report this post to the editors

300 People Appointed to State Boards.

Gino Kenny, the People Before Profit Councillor for Clondalkin, has challenged Mary Harney’s pattern of appointments to state boards, claiming that she displays a deliberate class bias against working people.


Press Release: 20 December 2010

Clondalkin Councillor challenges Mary Harney:

WHY DO YOU APPOINT CORPORATE CRONIES TO STATE BOARDS?

Gino Kenny, the People Before Profit Councillor for Clondalkin, has challenged Mary Harney’s pattern of appointments to state boards, claiming that she displays a deliberate class bias against working people.

‘Mary Harney is responsible for the largest number of appointments to state boards but she has systematically used her position to promote corporate cronies.

‘Of the total of 291 new appointments due to be made before February 2011, Mary Harney will appoint 96. This is three times higher than any other Minister.

‘But Mary Harney has consistently displayed a class bias in who she has appointed to these boards. Her appointees are often drawn from a narrow golden circle.

‘The Health Services Executive provides a good example of Harney’s bias against working class people.

Harney’s two latest appointments to the HSE board are:

· Frank Dolphin, a director of a Rigney Dolphin, company that outsources business process from both the public and private sectors.

· Nuala Hunt, a chartered accountant and tax consultant.

‘These two figures from the corporate world will deepen the overwhelming class bias of the HSE.

‘Even before these appointments, the HSE was dominated by figures drawn from the corporate elite.

‘That board includes the chairperson of the legal firm Arthur Co, which coincidently won a €9 million contract from the government to advise on the banking crisis – even while acting as a client for Bank of Ireland; the chairperson of the Irish Bankers Federation; a former managing director of Eircom; a manager with Deloitte, a company which co-incidentally charged the HSE a huge bill for introducing the infamous PPARS system; a professor of accountancy who is married to a former PD politician.



There are no trade unionists or representatives of community organisations on the HSE board.

‘Despite the fact that Mary Harney claims to represent the working people of Clondalkin in the Dail, she clearly thinks that people who are drawn from our social class could not help in running a health service.

‘In Mary Harney’s outlook, an accountant who serves the wealthy elite must know more about how to run a health service than representatives of patients who rely on the public health system’

‘With this class bias, it is no wonder that the HSE has become a dysfunctional bureaucracy.

‘I challenge Mary Harney to a debate in front of the people of Clondalkin. I would like her to tell us why she considers bankers and company directors more appropriate people to run a health service than people who have to depend exclusively on the public system.’

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author by V for vendettapublication date Mon Dec 20, 2010 23:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Glad to see this highlighted here. Good for you Gino.
It's all about pushing her lucrative privatisation agenda. None of those people will have a problem with that whole neo liberal agenda she follows.

The whole system of boards and selection is rotten to the core. It needs serious reform. FF are leaving us a timebomb with all their appointments. It will paralyse progress long after they are gone.

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Simple enough. Because her while is worth it.

Paralyse progress, V. Indeed, thats the operation. Plant the saboteurs and withdraw gracefully to recoup till tweedly edna exhausts the public patience. Repeat as required until all subversive democratic inclination is cured. Business as usual. Fresh puppets, same management.

author by Ghandipublication date Tue Dec 21, 2010 16:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Arthur Cox Solicitors have now got the HSE legal contract, surprise, surprise.

 
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